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[lastgunslinger]

Ted helps Roland down the hall and into room 99.

"Just like old times," says Ted wryly, with a sidelong smile at Roland.

Roland grunts.

Once inside, Ted settles Roland in his chair and awaits instruction.

"Write a note to the lady Moiraine, and take it to the bar. Ask that she gets it. Wait for her, and bring her upstairs, and don't say anything about why she's here in the bar. Put it in the note, or wait until you're up here."

Ted nods, and leaves.

A deep sigh, from Roland. He reaches for the volume of Yeats lying on the table and reads, and waits.

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[lastgunslinger]

"She's shaken up." Quietly. "But unharmed. Simon is with her."

[blue_ajah]

She nods, looking back and forth between them.

"A block of some sort, it was said?"

[mr-brautigan.livejournal.com]

Ted nods.

"The guards at the Academy -- they're low men. Can-toi, if you want to use the High Speech term. Same kind of guards they had where I was kept. And Roland asked her about them, asked her what she'd do to them -- and she just snapped. I imagine they put something like that in her mind. A safeguard. Anybody who would try to implant suggestions of rebellion...they'd get that reaction, and then they'd be dead." Simply.

[blue_ajah]

"Sa souvraya niende misain ye," she says quietly, and the Aes Sedai is somewhat more pale than before.

"Can-toi?"

[lastgunslinger]

Roland knows what she said.

Calm: "Means children of the desert. Servants of the Crimson King." Pause. "They themselves don't put in the blocks. They can't."

[blue_ajah]

"And who does, then?"

Her tone is very even. Very, very even.

[lastgunslinger]

"The doctors at the Academy."

[blue_ajah]

"Perhaps, then, it is just as well that you intend to bring the place down."

Calmly.

[lastgunslinger]

A small smile.

"There's a group that Eddie came up with, in his world. The Tet Corporation. Turns out they have another group, in the Serenity-folken's world. Met with them the other day. They can help get plans of the place, and other things."

Roland is feeling optimistic.

[blue_ajah]

She nods slightly.

"I saw you depart, as it happens."

And had spoken to Eddie afterwards.

[lastgunslinger]

"It was...successful."

Calm.

[blue_ajah]

Ted is silently watching, seemingly unsurprised, and so Moiraine focuses fully on Roland.

"I am glad to hear that." A pause. "I may presume, of course, that Eddie has explained what happened to prevent his departure with the rest of you."

[lastgunslinger]

Roland nods. "He did."

And Eddie had been...noticeably quiet.

[blue_ajah]

"It is not an easy thing to accept."

Calmly, still, although the expression in the dark eyes is thoughtful. "The Wheel weaves."